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Rashaad Penny underwent surgery in Philadelphia to repair a fractured finger on his left hand Rashard Higgins Jersey , the Seahawks confirmed Wednesday. The prognosis is better than originally thought, possibly putting him back on the field in time for the season opener.

“He had surgery that worked out beautifully,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said, via Curtis Crabtree of Sports Radio KJR and PFT. “It’s a couple weeks. He can already move it, and it’s not going to be in a cast or any of that kind of stuff, so he’s in pretty good shape.

“We got a great report on it. He’s not going to be out very long at all.”

Chris Carson will start at running back for the Seahawks. It’s the backup job that’s now in question with Penny and Mike Davis out. Davis Cody Whitehair Jersey , who led the team’s tailbacks with 240 yards last season, missed Wednesday’s practice with a sore big toe.

That gives oft-injured C.J. Prosise a chance for more reps. Prosise has played only 11 of 32 games the past two seasons.

Carroll said the Seahawks have seen enough from Penny to know “what he’s capable of doing.”

“He’s shown us all the instincts,” Carroll said. “His want-to is great. His learning ability is excellent. . . . Carrying the football instinctively, how to catch it and run with it, he’s done all that stuff. We’ve seen plenty.”

Earlier this month, President Trump addressed protests by NFL players by saying that they’ve seen “a lot of abuse” and unfairness before asking players to recommend names of people they would like to see considered for pardons.

Four players responded to that request in an Op-Ed for the New York Times published on Thursday. Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin Greg Zuerlein Jersey , former NFL wideout Anquan Boldin, Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, and Saints tight end Benjamin Watson called the power to pardon “a valuable tool for redressing injustice” and commended the President for pardoning Alice Johnson from serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense.

They also write that a “handful of pardons聽will not address the sort of systemic injustice that N.F.L. players have been protesting.”

“These injustices are so widespread as to seem practically written into our nation鈥檚 DNA. We must challenge these norms, investigate the reasons for their pervasiveness and fight with all we have to change them. That is what we, as football players, are trying to do with our activism.”

Using Johnson’s example and noting that 79 Charles Leno Jersey ,000 of roughly 185,000 federal prisoners are there for drug offenses, they suggest he could issue “a blanket pardon” for people given such sentences in nonviolent cases. They also point to the number of elderly people in the federal prison population — 28 percent by next year — and suggested releasing prisoners over 60 who are serving time for drug offenses that took place a long time ago.

They also make a call to end eliminate life without parole for nonviolent crimes on the federal level and point out that 30 percent of federal prisoners currently serving life without parole are there for nonviolent offenses as opposed to two percent on the state level.

“These changes, if President Trump were to make them, would positively affect the lives of thousands of people and have a lasting beneficial effect on many more people in the future. The president can implement these changes with his pardon power and other executive decisions. His ability to change the lives of people for the better is immense. We hope he uses it, not just for the few Jalen Reeves-Maybin Jersey , but for the many.”

The players have also filmed videos for Twitter featuring many of the same points聽raised in their Op-Ed.